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We’re pounding down the home stretch to Halloween, but the big opener today isn’t a horror movie. It’s The Lion in Winter, Anthony Harvey’s adaptation of the James Goldman play about Henry II’s (Peter O’Toole) vacillating choice for an heir. Katherine Hepburn won the third of her four Oscars as his scheming queen, and the sight of the two of them …

I can’t say I’m fond of it, but a number of people are, and it did launch the film career of one of the most successful comic actors of all time. (And okay, I admit it, there are scenes that make me laugh. Hard.) Ace Ventura: Pet Detective first hit theaters today in 1994. On a gentler note, Walt Disney pictures …